The Impact Of Substance Use Disorders On Families

Addiction is a theme that has been present throughout my life through members of my family and myself. My father was addicted to gambling and alcohol until finally, his drinking ended his life. My brother struggles with alcohol and keeping ahead of his problematic drinking. I have several cousins that float between alcohol and drugs to fulfill the need for an outside substance. For many years, I pondered how I had escaped the addiction curse in my family only to realize that my addiction is food. I overeat and self-sooth through food even though I have health concerns and know a better way. I spent most of my young adulthood angry at my father because he could not or would not change for his family. I am understanding more through education

Growing up in the household under substances influence can cause severe damage to the child. Parental substance abuse has a significant impact on family function, and it may also contribute to child maltreatment. It heightens the risks to both of the physical and emotional safety of the children, and it generates children’s problematic outcomes. Children who grow up in such families may also experience mental health issues, social isolation, financial difficulties, and exposure to stressful life events and so on.

Chemical dependency or rather drug abuse can bring an adverse change in the relationships with family and loved ones. Addictions affect chemicals in the brain which may lead to a change in the behavior of the drug abuser. Chemical dependants need help from outside so that they can recognize that they have an addiction problem as well as remaining sober from the substance. This paper discusses the issue of chemical dependency and the family. It will look at the various appropriate measures of intervention for addictive families. It will also look at the barriers that are associated with educating families and how they can be overcome. Secondly there will be identification of family behaviors that can cause harm and not help the addict. Finally the issue of how family members can negatively impact treatment outcomes will also be looked at.

Visible symptoms of borderline sociopath include; physical aggression, the inability to sustain relationships and shows a lack of regret in his or her actions. Sometimes I truly hate myself for what I have done to my children and family and it is a constant struggle to stay focused on my recovery.

If the family accomplishes to take care of the children properly by looking after them and checking their activities, then the drug addiction will not be able to harm children. The aim of writing this story is to help the parents and the family to understand that they are the primary institutions, which are directly involved in shaping the life of a person. Therefore, the family plays a strong role in both the Wes family, but one of them influences their child positively and the other influences their child negatively

Nic’s addiction had a severe impact on the Sheff family. The family dynamic changed due to the separation of Nic’s parents, which was emotionally stressful for Nic and maybe contributing factor towards Nic’s start to addiction. It is shown that “changes in any part of [a family] system affects the entire system. When life-altering changes occur, such as a family member leaving or divorce, the changes reverberate throughout the system” (Steenrod, 2014). Even though the divorce occurred within the parental subsystem and before Nic’s drug addiction began, the change still affected him and the stress of the change perpetuated through his adolescence. Usually, the father-son subsystem is examined with the father being the one who has the addiction, but in Nic’s circumstance the roles are reversed. “Individuals who are drug-impaired may be

A person, especially a parent, who is dependent on alcohol or drugs destroys a family because family members not only see how miserable the addicted really are, but they also witness, firsthand, the way substance abuse can deteriorate a person’s physical and mental body, as well as the fact that family members notice the money that is spent on the abused substances, which sometimes leaves families living in poverty for no reason other than the simple fact the addict has to have their fix. Addicts are the destroyers of happiness, self-worth, and any amount of money.

In this paper, I look at forms of substance abuse and the effects on children. I will be using the following headings to break down the different issues associated with this social problem: social causes, phenomenon, and consequences. I hope to educate those that may be ignorant to the situation, and help to spark a flame that can be used to not be a bystander, but a solution to the problem at hand.

Forgiveness is always a difficult act for families of addicts. Having to excuse the mistake or offense the person that hurt you is not easy at all and letting go of all that they have put you through is tough. But at the end of the day the family we still forgive them because they love them. “I’d like friends and, uh, to have my family forgive me“(Sheff 87). Nic was aware that he hurt his family. Most addicts are aware that they’ve affected the family and they do not intend to but because they are so addicted, they can’t help it. According to Erika Krull’s “Addiction and Family Roles”, it clarifies how “everyone takes on predictable roles when the family isn’t emotionally healthy, and this is usually caused by a drug or alcohol addiction”.

The purpose of this investigation it to learn more about alcoholism, and to explore the reasons of why an alcoholic decided to stop or continuing drinking. Alcoholism is an addiction to consumption of alcoholic liquor. In other terms alcoholism id drinking alcohol in excess frequently. Per BMC Systems Biology, almost 14% of alcohol consumers in the United States meet the criteria for alcohol dependence at some point in their life (BMC Systems Bio.). There are people that decide to drink, and some of them decide to stop drinking because they have fond reasons to stop. People decide to continue drinking even if they have pass for a lot of bad things that could change their life. On my ethnography, I will be able to reach some information about the alcoholism. On this paper, I will have two persons that will tell me their experiences with alcoholic. One of this person was an alcoholic but he stops

Drug addiction is a serious issue in not only America today, but globally. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, substance addiction is a “chronic, relapsing brain disease that is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, despite the harmful consequences” (“What is drug addiction?”). Drug abuse affects not only the user, but those around the user as well. The actions of a drug user place a significant amount of worry on the people that are closest to them such as friends and family. Children with parents who are addicted to drugs or alcohol can be severely affected by the actions of their parents which can cause them much harm in terms of biological and

I am writing to you about my concern of teen alcoholism. Alcoholism is a disease of the family, if only one family member has a drinking problem it still affects the rest of the family. Many relationships have ended because of the husband’s or wife's drinking problem. Families play a big role in recovering from alcoholism, if the family helps a lot it increases the better chances of recovering alcoholism.

Sometimes it is easier to fix a problem by self-medicating yourself. However, is this really considered “escaping” or is this just considered an easy way out? Many individuals have used drugs to cope with underlying problems. These drugs can help numb the pain, ease the tension, and temporarily make an individual forget their troubles. However, many fail to realize that their troubles will still be there after the “high” of the drug effect disappears. This can become a problem when these drugs are being over used or even abused. Many individuals become addicts because they want to keep that feeling they have when they take the drug; they do not want that feeling to go away. According to the research done on family therapy and its relationship

There are many drugs in our world today. There is marijuana, crack cocaine, cocaine, acid, X, alcoholism, and prescription drugs just to name a few.

Sometimes that I learned about the article was, that some drug addict can be very harmful to children. Some kids are even scared to be around their own parents because of their drug addiction. It also talks about how kids are even afraid that their own schoolmates find out that their parents are drug addicts. Also, many drug addiction care about their families, but need or have the urge to feed their addiction so it seems that they don’t care but in reality they do. " Substance misuse may be one of a series of inter-related factors within a family, such as poverty or depression, so that disentangling exactly what causes poor outcomes for the child can be difficult,"(Hart 9 ). In other words, children do not really understand why their